Videos


Nashville Cats : salute to Richard Bennett :




No Matter The Odds from Ballads In Otherness live with Sean Weaver and Nick Bennett :



Richard Bennett for Mark Knopfler : I Used To Could :





Richard in the movie : The Jazz Singer :
Richard Bennett playing the banjo , age 29 , in the movie The Jazz Singer with Neil Diamond :





Richard played for Neil Diamond on his world tour 2017




Richard for Rodney Crowell , 1982 Austin City Limits television show :




Steve Earle pays tribute to Richard Bennett :




Neil Diamond , Under A Tennessee Moon , with RB footage :




Richard recorded for David Peterson's "Old Time Power" :
From the David Peterson Bluegrass Gospel Sessions "Old Time Power" .



With Cerys Matthews in 2003 :





Here Steve Earl talks about "Guitar Town" , he talks also about the song “Think It Over” :

That song and “Good Ol’ Boy (Gettin’ Tough)” were co-written with Richard Bennett, the guitar player on the whole record. As I had the first few songs and knew I was writing the album and I had a record deal, I got on the Oaks’ buses and Deadheaded it out to the West Coast, where the busses were being ferried for a tour which the guys flew to. I road with the bus driver and got to L.A. I did a few different trips. I stayed at Richard Bennett’s house. He was playing guitar with Neil Diamond and had been for 17 years. He was a big influence. He was on the last tracks I did for Epic and produced some songs on the Rollin’ Rock record label in the early ’80s. I knew about him from that and there was a connection from [country singer-guitarist] Rodney [Crowell] because he was in Rodney’s band the Cherry Bombs. We wrote that track. Every note on it is Ricahrd. We made a demo where Richard played all the instruments. We couldn’t beat it. We tried doing it with the band in the studio. Finally, I stood there and sang and Richard played acoustic guitar and Harry Stinson played the snare drum. Richard went back and overdubbed the upright bass and the electric guitar. It’s all Richard and then Harry’s snare drum and me singing.
You can read the full interview here .

RB at a meet 'n greet with Mark Knopfler and Emmylou Harris :





Kieran Kane w/ David Olney - "Don't Try To Fight It" - Sept. 3, 2009 .
from his "Somewhere Beyond The Roses" CD Release Show • The Basement • Nashville, TN
Kieran Kane - Banjo/Lead Vox, Richard Bennett - Guitar, Lucas Kane - Percussion, Deanna Varagona - Baritone Sax




"Billy in the Lowground" at David Peterson's CD Release Concert for "Comin' On Strong" 2009 .




Richard in an old video with Becky Hobbs (1989)




Richard , Emmylou Harris and Mark Knopfler



Richard playing promo for Mark Knopfler's and Emmylou Harris' "All The Roadrunning" from 2006 on "Imus in The Morning" with the host Don Imus




Emmylou Harris & Mark Knopfler & Richard Bennett ~ Love and Happiness & Right Now




Thelonious Moog does "CARAVAN"




Whoop De Doo with Mark Knopfler



See how Richard plays the entire Romeo and Juliet solo




Daddy's Gone To Knoxville with Mark Knopfler




The Bellamy Brothers + Larry Williams' song "Let Your Love Flow" + RB's stinging guitars = 1970's pure pop ...


Desiree with Neil and his fantastic bandmates at that time.





Richard on stage with Mark Knopfler and Emmylou Harris , performing "Born To Run"



Richard on stage with Mark Knopfler and Emmylou Harris , performing "I Dug Up A Diamond"



Fooling around with Mark Knopfler




Mark Knopfler Meet ‘n Greet 2005 Madrid




Meet 'n Greet with Mark Knopfler Bulgaria 2008




Meet 'n Greet with Mark Knopfler Helsinki 2008




Meet 'n Greet with Mark Knopfler at the Royal Albert Hall , London




Vince Gill about a gift from Richard




Hilarious video with The Notorious Cherry Bombs




The tune for this song, Finlandia, is an important Finnish national song (though not Finland's national anthem). The song opens with a beautiful guitar solo by Richard Bennett, called "Fields Of Plenty". The renowned Stuart Duncan on fiddle.